Here is the situation, I was playing World of Warcraft earlier today and my computer suddenly rebooted. Never happened before but then after it rebooted, I notice that I cannot open any programs, windows, or anything at all really. The HD light is flickering and the CPU usage is running at about 80% (about the only window that will open is the con/alt/del window). Its appears to be "working" on something but I have now idea what and my system is crippled. I tried to let it run itself out but it doesn't stop. I tried rebooting a bunch of times to same effect. I get a normal windows background, startup programs appear to load (I cant verify b/c nothing works) and it hangs. I think it is a virus (cant run a scan though) so I was going to reformat but I wanted thoughts if any body thinks this may be a hardware problem. Ideas or suggestions on how to proceed is much appreciated....
My setup..
Win XP Pro with SP2
Pentium 4 2.6c 800 frontside bus
1 gig ram
ASUS PC4800 Delux MOBO
80 gig HD
20 gig secondary HD non SATA config
Brand name PSU
System is about almost 2 years old, no problems like this in past
Thanks in advance...
My setup..
Win XP Pro with SP2
Pentium 4 2.6c 800 frontside bus
1 gig ram
ASUS PC4800 Delux MOBO
80 gig HD
20 gig secondary HD non SATA config
Brand name PSU
System is about almost 2 years old, no problems like this in past
Thanks in advance...